Arizona Coffee

I just learned about Firehouse Coffee Company by way of Blabber Heads blog. It’s located in Bullhead City, AZ. Wow!
Dan & Karen
1371 Hancock Road
Bullhead City, AZ 86442
928-758-5358
firehousecoffee@gmail.com
We are a traditional style coffee house specializing in fresh roasted coffees from around the world. Also provided is a wide variety of exotic teas. Our commercial roasting capabilities […]

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I had a chance to optimize a few more pictures from the Rocket Coffee Roasters open house last week.

Unroasted coffee beans.

Sampling the mango drinks. The hazelnut was probably my favorite.

View of the Rocket Coffee Roasters roastery where all of the fun was at.

I’ve come to the conclusion that most coffee shop owners don’t care about quality coffee and their baristas either do care, or don’t know enough about coffee to know they’re doing it all wrong.
Two major things make up quality, at a high level anyways:

Coffee bean quality, when it was roasted, roast quality, etc.
Espresso / coffee […]

From a recent Business Week article on customer focus, we learn that most of Starbucks’ customers are repeat. I’m curious to hear from independent shop owners. Do repeat customers make up the majority of your revenue, too?
80% of Starbucks’ (SBUX) revenues come from customers who visit their stores an average of 18 times a month.

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Wow, here is some cool news! The Rocket Coffee Roasters team is planning to open up a full blown coffee bar in Glendale this fall. Larry Jones broke the news on his company blog 9bars. Can you say, awesome!!

I was in Scottsdale yesterday and so I decided to stop in and visit the new Cappucci Coffee Bar which is a part of the Ostrovsky Gallery. I don’t think very many people know about it yet, because I was the only person there… and it was about 9:30 in the morning.
Actually, I must say […]

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We all had a great time at the Rocket Coffee Roasters open house. I’m posting a few photos right now. I took a few more which I need to optimize before posting.

Pulling a shot of espresso on the Cyncra machine.

The result.

Larry showing his […]

Here’s a photo of an Irish Cream Latte I had at Inza Coffee a few weeks ago.

Someone just told me about Drip Coffee Lounge on 7th St & McDowell and says it is quite the happening place. I’m going to have to go over there a little later and give it a try.
Drip Coffee Lounge
2337 N 7th St
Phoenix, AZ 85006
(602) 363-2900

In Seattle you haven’t had enough coffee until you can thread a sewing machine while it’s running. — Jeff Bezos

I never drink coffee at lunch. I find it keeps me awake for the afternoon. — Ronald Reagan

Tucson is really alive. Flagstaff and Phoenix had better start working harder otherwise I’m going to have to rename this site Tucson Coffee.
The Arizona Daily Star has an article today about Old Pueblo Roasters and Coffee Etc. Anybody ever try their coffee?

So it’s really summertime. I think it was 115 degrees outside today.
What are some summertime drinks you’re enjoying? Has there even been any innovation in iced beverages lately? Sure, our friends at *$ have their banana drinks, but I don’t like banana’s. Have all of the independent coffee shops outsourced summertime drinks? It feels like […]

Has anyone ever been to Ike’s Coffee & Tea in Tucson? They’re listed in the phone book and on a few blogs but I can’t find anything else out about them.

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This Saturday beginning at 10 am I’ll be at Rocket Coffee Roasters.
I can only stay for 2 hours and based on everything I know, it will be a grand time! Larry tells me there are still a few seats left so be […]

A few weeks ago I made the trek out to Gilbert, AZ and visited a number of coffee shops. I found some good ones and some bad ones. I wrote this during my visit.
Well I am sitting at Zephyr Esspresso Caffe (Gilbert Rd. & Warner) and it’s a beautiful Saturday morning. I’ve just ordered and […]

Well, it’s Friday in coffee land and that means another weekend is upon us. I don’t know how it went by so fast but it was probably the busiest week I’ve had in several months. Sorry for the lack of coffee updates around here. I’m going to try to post my review of Zephyr tomorrow. […]

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I’m visiting Tucson on Saturday, August 12th with the exclusive purpose of getting coffee. Larry Jones is making the trip with me and we’re going to do some interviews, taste some coffee, and have a blast meeting people in Tucson. This is just […]

I stumbled across Yovana Yogurt recently. It’s not really coffee related although they do have an espresso machine and can make you a variety of coffee drinks. I admit I didn’t try the coffee but instead went for the yogurt blended drink. It was pretty good. They mix berries in and allow you to pick […]

Welcome KFYI listeners. Click here to see a list of coffee shops with free wifi. Big thanks to Joe Crummey for the mention on his show!